Ecosystem resilience and climate change 

Discussion points:

Resilient Ecosystems and climate change

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Feedback from the groups

Bad practices (Mal adaptation)

• Indiscriminate (terraces)
• Stable soils + good vegetation
• Campaign based – attacks soil structure
• Long term versus short term adaptation
• Water harvesting in areas where there is high evaporation
• Biological measures on terraces VS A & Z
• Inefficient use of dam structure large dams for small command areas.
• Use of water = equity
• An imbalance between the indigenous and exotic species
• Conservation of high forests to agriculture (large/small scale)

Good practice(s)

• What is good practice?
• Abraha Astbah – community mobilization
• Informed society should be formed so that they can practice the future, can develop practices
• Allocating rehabilitated/bad land to landless
• Linking rehab ecosystem to economic
• Blend traditional and scientific practices
• Participatory approach
• Distribution of hillside to landless youth
• Mixing both traditional and modern approaches
• Consider experience in water and soil management
• Gedeo Agro-forestry (community managed)
• Humbo/Soddo community managed A/F projects
• Abreha Atsbeha in Tigray region
• Croton-cereal integrated traditional framing system
• PfM by Farm Africa and other partners
• Derashe soil and water management practices
• Integrated watershed management at Dembecha woreda/ Maybar Andittid
• MERET experience integrated soil and water conservation/farm enclosure (Boset)
• Tigray experience on ex-closure and rain water harvesting
• North Shoa experience on eco-systems restoration/enclosure
• Vetiver grass based soil conservation in farm lands of Metu Woreda